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Edward Lazear: Stimulus and the Jobless Recovery – WSJ.com

With the news that GDP grew at 3.5% in the third quarter, it seems apparent that economic recovery is underway. How much of this was a result of government programs? To evaluate this, it is important...

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Obama Proposes Third Stimulus – WSJ.com

If at first fiscal stimulus doesn’t succeed, spend, spend again. That’s the motto President Obama embraced yesterday, even if he didn’t use the word “stimulus,” which has managed to set a political...

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Charles Lane: Job-killers that should be killed – washingtonpost.com

With unemployment stuck around 10 percent, President Obama has pledged “to take every responsible step to accelerate the pace of job growth.” Here’s a thought: Instead of trying to “create” jobs by...

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Religious Climate Rage – by Mark D. Tooley

The international Religious Left is grieving over the Copenhagen climate summit’s failure to mandate sweeping restrictions on capitalism and massive global redistribution of wealth. “With a lack of...

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Recovery not as strong as previously thought – AP

The economy grew at a 2.2 percent pace in the third quarter, as the recovery got off to a weaker start than previously thought. However, all signs suggest the economy will end the year on stronger...

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My ‘Snap Answer’ To Mort Zuckerman

Nancy Morgan’s latest article at RightBias.com Mort Zukerman, editor-in-chief of US News and World Report, in his article, How To Get Americans Working Again opines that there is no snap answer as to...

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Rep. Paul Ryan clashes with Obama over budget – washingtonpost.com

Rep. Paul D. Ryan says he is determined to make sure the Republican Party is viewed as “the alternative party, not the opposition party.” That is a goal President Obama embraced when he visited House...

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Brian Riedl: Obama’s Fantasy Jobs – NYPOST.com

Last year, White House economists claimed that the $862 billion stimulus would create 3.3 million jobs. Since then, the nation has lost more than 3 million jobs. That’s a 6.3 million jobs gap. By the...

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Eco-Idiots On Display

Assorted members of the radical environmental group Earth First gathered in a North Carolina forest to hold a public mourning for old growth trees. With tears and moans, this group of unrepentant...

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Rising World Powers Align

The coalition of major developing nations known as BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) continues to pull closer together while becoming more alienated from the United States. The Obama...

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Hollywood’s Green Hypocrisy

In the wake of the success of James Cameron’s paean to Gaia-worship, Avatar, the Hollywood heavyweight has been given an even bigger forum to spread his version of environmental dogma. It’s always...

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Bleak Jobs Report Perfect End Note to DNC

Many critics of President Obama’s speech on Thursday night called it flat and listless. Yet those same adjectives were insufficient to convey the reality of the jobs numbers released on Friday, a day...

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How Obama and Allies Are Suppressing News of Economic Disaster Ahead

On May 7th, it was revealed that the Obama administration spent $8.35 billion on a “demonstration project” designed to postpone the vast majority of Obamacare’s Medicare Advantage cuts until after the...

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Israel in the New Year: Resounding Successes, Looming Threat

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has released its population data for 2012, the year that just ended. As usual, the trends are favorable. The total Israeli population rose to just under eight...

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Obama’s Incredible Shrinking Economy

I believe that the funniest reaction to Wednesday’s government report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which showed that the economy contracted by an annualized 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of...

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Economic Mobility: Why the Doubters are Wrong

Most people are not even surprised any more when they hear about someone who came here from Korea or Vietnam with very little money, and very little knowledge of English, who nevertheless persevered...

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Taxes Are Up and Entrepreneurship Is Plummeting

The Obama Administration continues to punish the successful, so it is not surprising that according to a new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation entrepreneurship is falling. Small businesses,...

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Massive Job Growth Needed to Support Amnesty

If the new Gang of 8 immigration bill, known as S.744, passes, the US economy will need to create 66% more jobs than it did in its best decade over the next ten years, and almost 60 million new legal...

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No Future for France

An atmosphere of insurgency hangs over France. Month after month, demonstrations against the legalization of gay marriage bring together hundreds of thousands of people, and mobilization is not...

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Oh, Yeah — the Economy

The recent Obama administration scandals shift the spotlight from the economy. Yet the recovery remains depressingly sluggish, with the labor force participation rate at a 34-year low as millions of...

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